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Early Oscar contenders scarce despite rule change
As the first half of 2010 draws to a close, serious Academy Awards contenders have yet to emerge.
Admittedly, the 83rd annual Academy Awards ceremony, set for February 27, is a long way off. And traditionally most awards hopefuls arrive during the second half of the year.
But when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded its best picture race to ten nominees last year, it opened the door so that commercial hits could be rewarded alongside narrower, specialty fare.
Yet despite the Academy's open-door policy, the film industry hasn't been pumping out likely nominees.
“Robin Hood," given the full red-carpet treatment at the Cannes Film Festival, may have reteamed Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott, but it paled next to their Oscar-winning “Gladiator.” With more than $300 million in domestic grosses, “Iron Man 2” has moved ahead of the original's box office at the same point in its release, but the sequel failed to generate the critical enthusiasm that greeted its 2008 predecessor.
Far from championing awards hopefuls, critics have spent the first half of Hollywood's summer movie season competing to see who could deliver the most devastating put-downs of movies like “Sex and the City 2"and"TheA-Team.”
All that should change this weekend, as Disney releases Pixar's “Toy
Story 3," the first blue-chip contender in the 2010 awards race. As ofThursday, it boasted a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes—just like the first two instalments in the franchise.
And just as Pixar's “Up" was the earliest 2009 release — it opened on May 29 last year — to go on to score a best picture nomination, the third “Toy
what Nolan's original screenplay is all about — something about invading dreams — but the director has built up such a loyal fan-base and devoted critical following that there will be cries of distress if the movie fails to deliver. (When the Academy failed to nominate his last film, "The Dark Knight," for best picture, it set off a
Story” could become the first 2010 entry to make it into the circle of ten.
Looking toward July, the next great Oscar hope likely to stake its claim is Christopher Nolan's "Inception," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which Warners opens July 16. Visually-arresting trailers have only hinted at
fury of criticism that, in part, led to the newten-picture field.)
On the other hand, the Academy's new model doesn't guarantee that every box office hit is guaranteed automatic tickets to the Kodak Theater.
Currently, Tim Burton's “Alice in
Wonderland,” which Disney released in March, is the year's top grosser: It has taken in more than $1 billion worldwide. But the idiosyncratic Burton has yet to be embraced by the Academy — he has received only one nomination, as producer of the animated “Corpse Bride" — and “Alice" was greeted with decidedly mixed reviews. All of which could limit its Oscar profile to tech categories.
Meanwhile, Cannes didn't push many other films to the fore. The Palme d'Or winner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's demanding “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives," doesn't yet have an American distributor.
Although applauded by critics, Mike Leigh's “Another Year” went home empty-handed. But the slice-of-life movie about a circle of middle-aged friends should still find itself on the radar when Sony Classics releases it later this year — especially for Lesley Manville's performance as a quietly desperate single woman, which includes a drunk scene that's got to be considered awards bait.
Still, that leaves a lot of very open slots awaiting the onslaught of wannabes that will attempt to survive the Venice-Telluride-Toronto obstacle course in September. As far as Oscar 2010 is concerned, the race has only just begun.
Source: The New York Times